06 April 2023

Thematic Focus: Detention

Short pieces:

The Harms of Family Detention: Why Detaining Families Cannot be the Answer to Increased Migration and Displacement (Wormen's Refugee Commission, March 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US. See also two related Immigration Impact blog posts here and here.

High rates of physical and mental health problems found in children held in detention on Nauru: study (UNSW News, March 2023) [text]
- Note: This particular study is not freely available. However, another recently published journal article that focuses on the same issue is open access and is referenced below. 

IOM: thousands of migrants suffering in Libya detention centers (InfoMigrants, March 2023) [text]

Japan: 'Endless detention': Migrants speak out as government proposes harsh immigration bill (Amnesty International, March 2023) [text]

Migrant deaths in Mexico put spotlight on US policy that shifted immigration enforcement south (The Conversation, April 2023) [text]
- See also related Immigration Detention Monitor and Immigration Impact blog posts.

Researching and Exposing Violence Inside Pre-Removal Detention Centres on Mainland Greece (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2023) [text]

Themed Series: The Changing Landscapes of Immigration Detention (Border Criminologies Blog, March 2023) [text]
- Includes 12 posts altogether. To view them all, enter "immigration detention" in the "search title or content" box. 

**See more news in the Global Detention Project's Immigration Detention Monitor.

Reports & journal articles:

"Health of children who experienced Australian immigration detention," PLoS ONE 18(3): e0282798 (March 2023) [open access]
- See also related post on The Conversation.

Hostile Accommodation: How the Asylum Housing System is Cruel by Design (Refugee Action, March 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the UK. See also related press release.

"How Immigration Detention Became Exceptional," Stanford Law Review, vol. 75, no. 2 (Feb. 2023) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

Il Existe une Alternative à la Détention des Migrants! (JRS Belgium, March 2023) [access]

"Incarcerating the Innocent: Inside Canada’s Immigration Detention Centres," Flux: International Relations Review, vol. 13, no. 2 (2023) [open access]
- Scroll to p. 37.

"Keeping Counsel: Challenging Immigration Detention Transfers as a Violation of the Right to Retained Counsel," Michigan Journal of Race and Law, vol. 27, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"This is a Slow Death": An Urgent Appeal on the Plight of Afghan Refugees Indefinitely and Arbitrarily Detained in the UAE (Global Detention Project, March 2023) [text]
- See also related Human Rights Watch news story.

U.S. Detention of Child Migrants: Backgrounder (Council on Foreign Relations, updated March 2023) [text]

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